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‘The tibiae were disarticulated, stripped of soft tissue, and placed in 70% alcohol for fixation and storage.’

‘Additionally, disarticulated human bone was found mixed with animal bone and other household refuse in the fill of burial pits and other small pits.’

‘Almost all of the skeletons are entirely disarticulated, obscuring our view of what occurred after death.’

‘Each knee was disarticulated at the hip, and skin and muscle were stripped both proximal and distal to the knee.’

‘The famous surgeon, Dr. Pott, was able to disarticulate an ankle and dip the soggy end of the lower leg into boiling pitch in 15 seconds.’

‘Specimens were then prepared for morphometric analysis with dermestid beetles, which cleaned and disarticulated skeletal elements of the head.’

‘Although all sutures are open and some are now filled with sediment, these elements must have been firmly united by ligaments to resist the forces that completely disarticulated other parts of the skeleton.’

‘Large disarticulated spines found in limestones upsection from the shale unit at the Lake Brownwood Spillway are typically 60-70 mm when complete.’

‘Both hindlimbs were disarticulated at the hip joints and stored at - 20 [degrees] C until required for mechanical testing.’

‘If there's just a single disarticulated bone in the site, then it becomes more tenuous.’

‘When it was excavated in 1821 at least fifteen disarticulated skeletons were found, and a further eight or nine in 1854.’

‘Other scattered, disarticulated bones on the platform were oriented both east-west and north-south.’

‘Suddenly its huge mouth opens perpendicularly to its body, and its jaw disarticulates from the skull.’

‘An infant buried in a pit within the Dederiyeh Cave in Syria, for example, seems to have been placed after its joints had become disarticulated, but with some concern that bodily parts were placed in their correct anatomical order.’

‘The apparent ease with which the sponge skeletons disarticulated before burial makes our discovery of well-preserved specimens of special interest.’

‘In Oestocephalus, the atlas is disarticulated, but the relatively shorter proatlas would permit a closer articulation with the skull.’